The Image of Juan Manuel de Rosas as a Barbarism. The Centenary of the Death of Marco Avellaneda (1941)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the images developed in historiography and historical memory about Marco Avellaneda, a young man beheaded as a punishment after the final failure of a league of provinces that confronted Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1841. In the province of Tucumán, and to a lesser extent in other Argentine provinces, was brewing since the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the next century, an image that placed this young man as the sum of the civic virtues, and as a counterpart of federalism, and caudillismo, defined in terms of barbarism.